VARDA BY AGNÈS
2019 - FRANCE - 115 MINUTES - ENGLISH - FRENCH
A FILM BY AGNÈS VARDA
The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, she acts as our spirit guide on a free-associative tour through her six-decade artistic journey, shedding new light on her films, photography, and recent installation works while offering her one-of-a-kind reflections on everything from filmmaking to feminism to aging. Suffused with the people, places, and things she loved—Jacques Demy, cats, colors, beaches, heart-shaped potatoes—this wonderfully idiosyncratic work of imaginative autobiography is a warmly human, touchingly bittersweet parting gift from one of cinema’s most luminous talents.
NNNN “Varda By Agnès is a sublime career retrospective” - NOW
Agnès Varda’s final film gives the French auteur the due she’s been owed her entire career” - Globe and Mail
“Varda by Agnès” is cinema bliss” - Toronto Star
“a perfect introduction to a talented artist who, even at 90, left us far too soon.” - National Post
“the late, legendary filmmaker's lively manifesto shows the substance behind the feminist 'meme'“ - Original Cin
“a true film on how life imitates art (in this case, film) and how art imitates life." - Toronto-Franco
“It’s sad that she’s no longer with us but there’s a joy in experiencing her life and her amazing work.” - In the Seats
"The doc is a moving photo album of her colourful life, her spoken truths, her art installations and photographs, the things she loved, and it is a joy to watch.” - What She Said
“Varda By Agnès will be true bliss for fellow filmmakers. In fact, it should be required viewing for those visionaries. Varda By Agnès is a masterclass in empathetic, sincere storytelling accompanied by encouraging advice about how to perceive achievements and failures.” - Wylie Writes
"This poignant self-portrait of a life well lived is a true inspiration. We should all be so lucky to contribute a fraction of the joy to the world that Varda provided in her prolific career." - POV Magazine
“Une vraie Leçon de cinéma” - La Presse
“Gardiene du patrimoine” (An interview with Rosalie Varda) - La Presse
“L’archive du mois : en souvenir d’Agnès Varda” - Radio Canada
“l’une filme, l’autre cause” - Le Devoir